Leslie Epstein   This 1979 classic tells the darkly humorous story of I.C. Trumpelman, a man whose fancy determines the fate of others. Chosen as the head of a Judenrat,...

Steven Uhly One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An S.S. officer is shot dead by a young Polish...

Author: Pam Jenoff In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war Nineteen-year-old...

Leo Bretholz   A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).Young Leo Bretholz survived...

Belva PlainA prosperous family in Berlin cannot imagine what the future holds when they adopt an orphan named Lore, creating an older sister for their daughter Caroline. In 1939 Caroline...

Imogen Kealey Inspired by the incredible true story of the most decorated servicewoman of the second world war.Nancy Wake was an Australian girl who, aged, 16 ran away from her...

Chana MantelThe small Swedish island of Lidingo became a haven for the homeless, shattered girls saved from the ravages of the Holocaust. There they received the warmth, love, and Jewish...

Meyer Birnhaum with Yonason Rosenblum   A Soldier's Story: Growing up Jewish in America, Liberating the DP Camps, and a New Home in Jerusalem   First published January 1, 1984

Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth HerzogOver many hundreds of years the Shtetl, the small-town Jewish community of Eastern Europe, developed a way of life uniquely its own, bearing witness to the...

James M Glass In this path-breaking work of intellectual and cultural history, James M. Glass provides a provocative new answer to the questions about the Holocaust that bedevil us to...

Ruth ZeidmanA personal account of the Holocaust

Martha Hall Kelly For three women living through World War II, the threat of war poses very separate issues - that is, until their lives become intertwined in the most...